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Originally Posted by orange
You literally are a moron.
Vehicle scrap yard: Important - Passage to "Rossokha" village, cemetery of military machineries - ACCESS FORBIDDEN BY THE GOVERNMENT STARTING APRIL 2008! The scrap yard contains the irradiated emergency vehicles which tended the disaster. There are a number of fire tenders, ambulances, trucks and helicopters in the vehicle graveyard, although some of the vehicles are now being sold as scrap metal. You will no longer be able to gain entry there, but as some of the vehicles are still carrying lethal doses of radiation, this isn't a bad thing.
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Tap water in the area remains unsafe for drinking or washing because of the radiation that leaked into surrounding dams, lakes and rivers, so stick to bottled water or mineral water - which in Ukraine is predominantly sparkling.
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Stay on roads, the radiation levels on areas covered by vegetation are significantly higher. Even more important, the risk for contamination when walking amongst vegetation is higher because it is more difficult to avoid touching or inhaling anything. Radiation ends when you leave the place, but you don't want radioactive elements inside your body. Follow common sense if you are on your own; if you see an area marked with a radiation sign, the meaning is clear: DON'T GO THERE.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Chernobyl |
yes, because obviously you should believe everything the Russian government says, for whatever political reasons they have to say it, and COMPLETELY IGNORE the cold, hard reality that a few microSv/hr is not much more than what you get from sunlight. But you refuse to see any of that or understand, because you are still trapped in that caveman brain which is utterly terrified of this voodoo magic known as nuclear radiation. Screw understanding it, nuclear radiation = bad!
Those seriously responding to my 0.7%/year cancer risk seriously, that was an absolute extreme example. If you go out a few miles, that background radiation cancer risk drops close to zero.
My point is not that you should build a house right next to the chernobyl plant. (building next to an industrial wasteland is bad for property values anyway) my point is that living a few miles away from chernobyl is not much worse than living in kansas city.